Smoking – You Might As Well Shoot Yourself

I don’t smoke, and I’m not going to preach to those of you that do… but I present these:

Lots more after the break

Really good creativity in some of the ads and pictures. I like the break open double barrel shotgun, and the lighter as the end of a gun barrel! The revolver with cigarettes in it is kind of over used as you can see.

If you have any more I can add, leave me a link in the comments.

It seems like everyone I know that smokes, knows its bad for them but really have no intention on ever quitting.

For those of you that smoke, do you find anti-smoking ads at all effective? Or could you really care less?

I once (fairly recently) had a female roommate from Spain. Being European, the concept of private gun ownership (particularly in the quantity I have) was confusing and slightly frightening to her. I was talking to her one day about it and I asked her “So you’ve never been mugged or had your life threatened when you lived in Spain?” She looked at me, took a long drag off her cigarette, and said (and I quote with accent):

“Wounce, I waz wiv my gorlfriend, end sum guy, he run op to me ond he try to greb my porse, but I greb hees arm end I born heem wiv my cigarette…..”

Yes, but weapon owners aren’t owning weapons to go out and commit crime. The bullshit about the poster is that they say “crime” (via gun) kills less than smoking. It’s obviously anti-weapon (gun) and smoking. Just another step towards fascism.

They say crime, not guns, so theyre including beatings, stabbings, vehicular homicide, etc. The handgun is a universal symbol of lethality, and the most effective recognized symbol for conveying death. Its not anti gun anymore than an anti drunk driving campaign depicting a bottle of jack daniels is anti whiskey.

Gun are lethal by design. Trying to say or infer otherwise is foolish and misleading. That doesn’t make them evil but it does make them dangerous, just like cigarettes.

I just can’t figure out who now a days , who can afford to smoke. In my area, name brand cigarettes cost $7.00, although some gas stations sell “manure” cigarettes for something like $3.50 a pack. I heard that in New York City with a tax hike they cost $11.00 a pack!